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Focusing on investment strategy and implementation, it is populated by original news stories, case studies and research that relate directly to the work of investment professionals at pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. Source

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“There is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole,” John Maynard Keynes wrote. Let’s examine how this applies to tobacco and carbon divestment. I’ll address this macro-position at the end of this article. First, I want to lay out the groundwork. Arguably, the movement to divest tobacco holdings from institutional portfolios can be traced to an individual. (That makes for a better story; multiple influences within a complex system make for a poor narrative.)

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South Africa’s 1.6 trillion rand ($131 billion) Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) has just bailed out struggling state-owned electricity monopoly Eskom with an emergency 5 billion rand ($0.4 billion) bridging loan, at the government’s behest. This has confirmed fears among South Africa’s vocal trade unions, which have worried for a while that Africa’s largest pension fund might be used to prop up ailing state-owned companies beset by poor management and performance.

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The €473 billion ($575 billion) APG, Europe’s largest investor, is constantly looking for new ways to innovate that can enhance its processes and decision-making to benefit the 4.5 million members it serves. For many investors, the sophisticated application of AI, machine learning and big data remains a fantasy, but APG has had data scientists as part of its investment team since 2016.

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Infrastructure investors today use ad hoc benchmarks for unlisted infrastructure investment. EDHECinfra wishes to establish an industry standard for the infrastructure asset class – and we’ve made progress. We have established a framework for data collection and developing asset-pricing techniques to measure the risk-adjusted performance of private infrastructure. From this foundation, we can now build market indices. But what are the most relevant broad market indices for this asset class?

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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is a true long-term investor. It considers investments in quarter-centuries not the next quarter, amortises returns over 75 years, and can put capital to work in long-term projects, such as infrastructure. But CPPIB still has about 10 per cent of its assets handled by external managers in public market exposures.

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The year 2017 proved to be one of the most costly on record for insurers. With the cost of devastating hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria – together with two earthquakes in Mexico and wildfires in California – the losses are expected to reach more than $100 billion once all claims are paid. These losses will be borne by insurers, reinsurers and investors in insurance-linked securities (ILS) strategies.

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The financial system is operating unsustainably, perpetuating or ignoring environmental and social problems. The continued financing of excessive greenhouse gas emissions and worsening economic inequality, for example, threaten to further divide the financial system from the interests of the users and beneficiaries it is designed to serve. Now, however, a groundbreaking report offers a genuine framework for solutions.

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We all know past performance is not indicative of future results, but a new study finds evidence that US public pensions are basing performance forecasts on their own prior experiences anyway. US public pension plans base their return expectations for individual asset classes on their own experience with those classes, new research has found. Stanford University’s Joshua Rauh and Erasmus University’s Aleksandar Andonov examined how institutional investors set return expectations.

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Global pension assets grew by $4.8 trillion last year, at a rate of 13.1 per cent on the year before. It was the largest growth rate in the 20 years of the Global Pension Assets Study. In the 2018 report, Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute covers 22 pension markets (known as the P22) with combined assets of $41.4 trillion, about 50 per cent larger than a decade ago.

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Europe’s pension funds are neglecting their duty to ensure that the sustainability preferences of their beneficiaries are “proactively sought and incorporated” in their investment decision-making, the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance states in its 2018 final report, Financing a Sustainable European Economy.

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